The median parent has median students for children. Therefore, interventions that seem good for the bottom 80% are much more popular than ones for the top %20 percent by simple population dynamics. So of course people care more about school for the middle 80 percent, since there is about an 80 percent chance that their children are there. At that point, arguing to the middle 80 wins elections, so we should expect to see it.
The current education system focuses almost exclusively on the bottom 20%. If we’re expecting a tyranny of the majority, we should see the top and bottom losing out. Also, note that very few children actually have an 80% chance of ending up in the middle 80%, so you would really expect class warfare not a veil of ignorance if people are optimising specifically for their own future children’s education.
The median parent has median students for children. Therefore, interventions that seem good for the bottom 80% are much more popular than ones for the top %20 percent by simple population dynamics. So of course people care more about school for the middle 80 percent, since there is about an 80 percent chance that their children are there. At that point, arguing to the middle 80 wins elections, so we should expect to see it.
The current education system focuses almost exclusively on the bottom 20%. If we’re expecting a tyranny of the majority, we should see the top and bottom losing out. Also, note that very few children actually have an 80% chance of ending up in the middle 80%, so you would really expect class warfare not a veil of ignorance if people are optimising specifically for their own future children’s education.